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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that this website contains images of deceased persons.

Live online

Thursday 22 February 2024 – Sunday 22 February 2026

Explore the collection from the comfort of you loungeroom. Join us for free, interactive, virtual collection tours. Examine portraits in depth with Gallery Educators delivered via Zoom, and chat, comment and ask questions just like the IRL experience. Videos of selected previous events are available too.

Adam Goodes
Adam Goodes
Adam Goodes
Adam Goodes

Virtual Highlight Tour

Shadow Speak

12:30pm, Tue 27 Aug
Live online

Join us today as we explore portraits from our collection that make masterful use of shadow and light to tell visual stories.

Bookings required
David Chalmers
David Chalmers
David Chalmers
David Chalmers

Virtual Highlight Tour

Dissecting portraits

12:30pm, Tue 3 Sep
Live online

Today we’ll take a deep dive into three works that explore the intersection of science and portraiture.

Bookings required
Those trees came back to me in my dreams
Those trees came back to me in my dreams
Those trees came back to me in my dreams
Those trees came back to me in my dreams

Virtual Highlight Tour

Joan Ross: Those trees came back to me in my dreams

12:30pm, Tue 10 Sep
Live online

Join us for this very special tour of Joan Ross: Those trees came back to me in my dreams.

Bookings required
Albert Namatjira
Albert Namatjira
Albert Namatjira
Albert Namatjira

Virtual Highlights Tour

Australian Citizenship Day

12:30pm, Tue 17 Sep
Live online

This Australian Citizenship Day, join us as we discuss what citizenship may have meant to some of our portrait sitters.

Bookings required
Self portrait, 2024 Mitch Cairns
Self portrait, 2024 Mitch Cairns
Self portrait, 2024 Mitch Cairns
Self portrait, 2024 Mitch Cairns

Virtual Highlights Tour

Eye on the Prizes

12:30pm, Tue 24 Sep
Live online

Presenting from the Gallery floor, Visitor Experience Assistant Nic Schmidt discusses some of their favourite works from the Darling Portrait Prize and National Photographic Portrait Prize 2024.

Bookings required
Habitat of monstera II (Self-portrait with yellow paisley jacket), 2023 Bahman Kermany
Habitat of monstera II (Self-portrait with yellow paisley jacket), 2023 Bahman Kermany
Habitat of monstera II (Self-portrait with yellow paisley jacket), 2023 Bahman Kermany
Habitat of monstera II (Self-portrait with yellow paisley jacket), 2023 Bahman Kermany

Virtual Highlights Tour

Staff favourites

12:30pm, Tue 15 Oct
Live online

Join us as our team share some of their favourite portraits in this year’s Darling Portrait Prize and National Photographic Portrait Prize.

Bookings required
Matt Finch, 2017 by Sue Olliver
Matt Finch, 2017 by Sue Olliver
Matt Finch, 2017 by Sue Olliver
Matt Finch, 2017 by Sue Olliver

Virtual Highlights Tour

Portraits of queer futurity

12:30pm, Tue 22 Oct
Live online

Join Matt Finch as he considers three portraits in the collection that offer different gateways to worlds beyond, blending past, present and future.

Bookings required
Helen Garner
Helen Garner
Helen Garner
Helen Garner

Virtual Highlights Tour

Through their eyes

12:30pm, Tue 29 Oct
Live online

This week, join Social Media & Content Coordinator Georgina Holt as she takes you through three contemplative portraits of Australians who have borne witness to some of the country’s, and the world’s, darkest moments.

Bookings required

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Monday 23 February 2026 – Thursday 24 February 2028
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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders past and present. We respectfully advise that this site includes works by, images of, names of, voices of and references to deceased people.

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